How to abolish nuclear weapons

On Monday, Ploughshares Fund grantee George Perkovich  told a packed bi-partisan crowd at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace that "the political and security costs today of rejecting the idea that nuclear disarmament is an obligation would be immense, and so one has to start with the premise that this should be a high level objective."  It was the first presentation in the U.S. of an "Adeplhi Paper" funded in part by Ploughshares Fund and published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies that assesses the "how" -- how we would accomplish the abolition of nuclear weapons.
 
The paper examines fundamental questions related to verification, enforcement, managing the nuclear industry, and conventional balance of power, and it attempts to define and examine challenges of three types -- technical, poltical-technical, and purely political.  And while the paper acknowledges that the road would be long and difficult, it concludes that the obstacles should not stop us from pursuing nuclear disarmament.  In fact, all steps on the way to zero are beneficial in their own right.
 
View Perkovich's presentation here.